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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 12783" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>An immediate positive response to an antidepressant is often the activation of hypomania and <em>not</em> a good sign. If that's what's happening, it may last for a few weeks, up to 3 months before it's pretty obvious the behavior is going downhill. Upping the dose will only repeat the initial hypomanic reaction and will not be positive in the long run.</p><p></p><p>Antidepressants should take 2-4 weeks to show strong results and those results should occur gradually.</p><p></p><p>There are two types of withdrawal which I call acute and chronic. The initial withdrawal occurs as the drug is discontinued and leaves the body and often lasts about two weeks. The other withdrawal is the part where the brain reverses (as much as it's going to) the changes the drugs made in the brain. That can last months, some say as much as a year, depending on how long the drug had been taken. This can occur with stims (though those drugs leave the body more quickly), antidepressants (all the antidepressant withdrawal sites will discuss this) and, I believe, with antipsychotics (based on what I have read on boards like this and in the newspaper).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 12783, member: 1498"] An immediate positive response to an antidepressant is often the activation of hypomania and [i]not[/i] a good sign. If that's what's happening, it may last for a few weeks, up to 3 months before it's pretty obvious the behavior is going downhill. Upping the dose will only repeat the initial hypomanic reaction and will not be positive in the long run. Antidepressants should take 2-4 weeks to show strong results and those results should occur gradually. There are two types of withdrawal which I call acute and chronic. The initial withdrawal occurs as the drug is discontinued and leaves the body and often lasts about two weeks. The other withdrawal is the part where the brain reverses (as much as it's going to) the changes the drugs made in the brain. That can last months, some say as much as a year, depending on how long the drug had been taken. This can occur with stims (though those drugs leave the body more quickly), antidepressants (all the antidepressant withdrawal sites will discuss this) and, I believe, with antipsychotics (based on what I have read on boards like this and in the newspaper). [/QUOTE]
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